AGGRAVATED MENACING, PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD: A Parma woman, 20, was cited April 17 and faces criminal charges after she allegedly threatened a 33-year-old Parma woman who was driving her daughter to school.

The victim said that at about 8:40 a.m. she was driving eastbound on Pleasant Valley from Ridge Road. Her daughter, 8, was in the passenger seat.

Suddenly, a Ford Escort cut in front of the victim’s car twice. The Escort’s passenger —the 20-year-old Parma woman — then waved a 6- to 8-inch knife at the victim.

When the two cars stopped at a traffic light, the woman jumped out of the Escort. She pounded on the victim’s trunk and damaged the car’s taillight.

The woman then ran back into the Escort, which drove away.

The victim wrote down the Escort’s license plate. Police, using that information, tracked the 20-year-old woman to her house.

The knife was found at Daytona Drive and Hillcrest Lane, near the house.

FIRE OF SUSPICIOUS ORIGIN, THEOTA AVENUE: Police are investigating a car fire that started at about 3 a.m. April 16.

The car was unoccupied and parked in a lot near the three-way intersection of Theota and Pearl and Ridge roads. The victim heard a loud boom and someone yelling, “Fire.”

Earlier, someone rang the doorbell of a neighbor. The neighbor looked outside and saw someone enter a black vehicle in the parking lot. The vehicle drove off.

The car fire started about 15 minutes later, the neighbor said. When police arrived, the car was engulfed in flames.

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